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Postscript was solving the problem of producing nice proofs for photo transfer. Complaining about how it's not a great display protocol on modern flatscreens is
by User23 4y ago
Postscript was solving the problem of producing nice proofs for photo transfer. Complaining about how it's not a great display protocol on modern flatscreens isn't missing the point, it's not even realizing there is a point to be missed.
- gumby 4y agoThat’s not how it was marketed. I used the Dover and its postscript predecessor (I can’t remember the name) so I’m familiar with the page description languages described in the article (I was at PARC for a while). PDF was supposed to go beyond that, and its parametric model was a conceptual win…then mostly constrained as a semantic-free rendering system.